He was using IR film and IR flash bulbs. Quite likely the subjects did not know they were being photographed. Having played with that stuff back in the early fifties I can assure you you had to be staring into the flash reflector to see it go off.

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Shel Belinkoff wrote:


First, Weegee used flash, and these kids in the movie theater knew that their photo was taken. It's possible, considering the size and obvious nature of Weegee's equipment, that the photo was agreed to or even planned beforehand, or that these kids, seeing the camera, decided to play towards it. Of course, that's just an assumption, a guess.


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